Stathis Livathinos
Masquerade, by Mikhail Lermontov
“Pushkin wrote The Queen of Spades; it’s the story of a card player. Gogol wrote Players; it’s the story of a card player. Lermontov wrote Masquerade for the stage; it’s the story of a card player. Dostoyevsky wrote the novel The Player; it’s the story of a card player. Behold the entire history of Russian literature” (Anatoly Vasiliev).
The Athens Festival presents the Greek première of Masquerade (1835), a poetic tale of jealousy banned by the Tsar’s censors from the Russian stage. Featuring a hero who is quite alone in a world of balls, gambling and vanity, the play paints an unforgiving picture of the Russian aristocracy.
In this production, Stathis Livathinos, a director who has proved his mettle in classic Russian drama, renews his professional acquaintance with key collaborators from the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece [D.K.].
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Duration 2 hours with no interval.
Peiraios 260
- 25/06/2008 at 21:00
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